Well I'm pretty sure that drinking water treated with chloramine is far preferable to drinking untreated water, so even if it is toxic, it's not toxic enough at current levels to merit concern.

It's still worth investigating, because it's good to have confirmation.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Might help to filter out the chemicals before drinking.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

You can't really "filter" out these chemicals when they're fully dissolved in the water.

There's always distillation, but that's not practical at all on the scale of drinking water for cities.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Reverse osmosis is the other option, but it's also not cost-effective at city scale.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Ah, good point. Forgot about that one haha.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I had thought activated charcoal could remove the chemicals. No I don't mean city scale. I meant after the water comes out of the tap but before you drink it. City water has to be treated to not harbor too many germs.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm also pretty sure you're correct in saying so. I can't recall any other treatments offhand, but there may be alternatives?